so why did you want to make a stanley askblog anyway?
(Funnily enough? It wasn't originally planned to be an ask blog.
As the name may imply I was going to make it one of those posts-from accounts (postsfromaweirdertimeline, a darker timeline, jurassic park, etc). I had set it up when I first made it where I would make one post a day, some stupid funny offhanded post that Stanley would make about the parable, and that would be it. If you scroll alllll the way back you can probably see when the shift started to happen, but let me just summarize so you don't have to.
I made one post my first day of making the account. And then I scheduled enough for the week. Once a day, 12:30 pm EST, that's it. I expected I'd lose motivation and abandon it within that time frame.
Full on I did not expect this blog to get any sort of attention. Or so quickly for that matter. And it was so weird cuz like??? Within a week this blog I had planned to abandon had more followers than any account I had made anywhere before. And people really liked my posts! I got comments and interactions and wanted more, so I said fuck it, let's see how long I can keep this traction.
Few more days, I ask people to send in ideas to keeps stanley busy around the office. This was the turning point where this became more like an ask blog.
And over time it just, switched entirely. It's really beautiful to me. Because I went into this at a time where I had a lot of... creators block? I do a lot and I found myself at a point where I couldn't do anything. I couldn't write, I couldn't paint, I couldn't draw, I just couldn't create for some reason. And this really started to draw up something in me where I saw an opportunity to build this character and some frame that vaguely looked like a story if you squinted, and that did wonders for me.
And along the way through tags I managed to rope someone into my shenanigans with me. And that gave so much more to do and build off of and just. Thank you Narrator Admin for going along with all of this. I know we haven't had many real conversations but honest to god you've shaped this blog so much.
All of you have. Thank you to all the anons and askers and everyone who's come along for the ride or been there since the beginning. Thank you to my first ever follower who still shows up in my notifs from time to time and the early followers who I still see spam liking my posts and everyone who sends asks or makes art or owns an anon blog or never interacts with Stanley but I still see liking the posts and just. Yeah.
By the way, we hit 100 followers. Twice. It happened once and then some people unfollowed and it happened again and I was waiting to say anything till I found the motivation to draw something for the occasion. But in case that never happens, Thank You For Enjoying The New Content. <3)
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Miller was the only Belter in the room when he shot Dresden.
I’m pretty sure this has been discussed on this site before, but things get buried, and I’m in Expanse mood.
But the people in that room were Holden, an Earther, Johnson, an ex-Earther, and Miller, a Belter. Oh, and Dresden. An innerlawda who’d been experimenting on Belters, killing hundreds of thousands.
It’s made extremely clear previously that many Belters see Miller as a traitor, a welwala, and he’s started to wear that on his sleeve. He chose to become the boot, based on the black and white view he had as a street rat. He wears Earther fashion, is a cop who arrests Belters, and regards the OPA with disdain.
Yet, he still speaks Belter Creole, still physically looks like a Belter, and is still deeply enmeshed of various aspects of Belter Culture, even if he’s not a fan of space or spacewalks.
And in that one moment, where Dresden is going on and on about the importance of his science, Miller has to think like a Belter.
Holden and Johnson are starting to listen to the siren song, but Miller has seen this kind of demagoguery before. He hates demagogues, and hates how they caused what he sees as a massive problem with Belters (which is a whole other post).
Johnson may be Belter now, but he wasn’t raised Belter, didn’t grow up among Belters, and still thinks like an Earther. Which sure, works sometimes. But other times? Nah.
Holden, oh Holden. Sure, he was on Eros, but even Naomi laments that Holden doesn’t get Belters. Holden saw people dying, but he had no connection to them. It’s just his habit of being a fucking Paladin that kept him fighting for them.
But Miller? Not only was his buddy on Eros, but even if he didn’t know the people of Eros, he knew they were HIS people. He knew that Dresden killed his fellow Belters, because Dresden thought of Belters as no more than fleas. Dresden killed people that Miller may not have known but he had a cultural connection to. And Ceres could easily be next.
So in that room, Miller is the only Belter, and he’s faced with a choice. Let Dresden woo the Earthers, potentially causing the deaths of millions more Belters, or shoot Dresden and face the consequences.
Given he was SEVERELY depressed, and kinda used to dealing with consequences, he went fuck it and went with the latter.
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before i go to bed, for some reason I didnt get a notification from tumblr like i usually do (i guess they forgot lol) but today’s the 10 year anniversary of me being on tumblr!
originally I started out over on @smolidraws as a little superwholock/multifandom blog, and then roughly 3 years later i created this blog originally as a markiplier/jse sideblog but now it’s the one i’ve been on the longest and the one im (kinda??) the most known for haha.
from mishpocalypse to antipocalypse, almost going to dashcon to getting to meeting people ive come to know online at pax east, to getting more comfortable posting my art, theories, shitposts etc, it’s been fun ride ^^.
admittedly i dont get as personal here as i used to be, but i guess ill use this little post to thank ya guys for being here for however long you’ve been around ^-^. it’s honestly really nice and tbh really, really cool to get to interact with the communities im in (especially the jse community) through sharing my long rambles and the things i’ve create.
and while im a bit of a shyish person still, i really appreciate the couple of people ive been able to get to talk to and know over the years cos of this website. i have a lot of fond memories spending time in discord servers together, dming and reblogging during exciting ego times, having someone to lend an ear to when needed (especially when college was driving me mad) and vice versa, and im really happy that i had a chance to do so with yall :)
ill probably make a better post next year when this blog specifically hits 8 years and when im not sleep deprived lol, but 10 is a doozy to be on this dumpster fire of a site (/lh), so might as well celebrate a tiny bit ^-^. love you guys <3
p.s. for the few people who are somehow still here from the very, very beginning (if there are any still out there i think like 2/3 of the 900ish people on my old blog are either spam or long deactivated lol) i definitely really appreciate yall for sticking around for so long and hope you stick along for more too :).
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